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August 2024
Graduate Degree Program Enrollment May Tumble Unlessā€¦
For over a decade, graduate degree programs have been a cash cow for colleges and universities. Between 2010 and 2021, overall enrollments in graduate school programs grew by a robust 9%; this, as undergrad enrollment plummeted 15%.[1] But even though graduate program enrollments have been quite strong, and have been a godsend for struggling institutions,...
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About The Massively Untapped Pool of Prospective Online College Students
The numbers donā€™t lie. The US population has grown by nearly 20 million people over the past decade. Yet even as our population grows, the percentage of high school seniors who enroll in college is at a ten year low.[1] Last year, just 61.8% of recent high school grads enrolled in college, compared to 66%...
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More FAFSA Headaches Coming Our Way
Check out these headlines. ā€œExperts Fear ‘Catastrophic’ College Declines Thanks to Botched FAFSA Rolloutā€– US News & World Report[1] ā€œFAFSA glitches and delays leave students, states, institutions in limboā€Ā – The Washington Post[2] ā€œWhat the heck is happening with college financial aid this year?ā€Ā – CNN[3] ā€œFAFSA applications drop by 40% as U.S. struggles to fix botched...
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Countercyclical Demandā€¦ Will College Enrollments Soon Rebound?
In 1992, political strategist James Carville famously quipped, ā€œitā€™s the economy, stupid,ā€ to prove a political point that Americans are more concerned about their wallets than just about any other issue. And he was right. At the time, our economy was just emerging from recession, leaving many households struggling to pay bills as unemployment reached...
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Additional Oversight: Is the US Department of Education Overstepping Its Bounds?
The college and university system in the United States, including many primarily online institutions, has been having a tough go for over a decade now. Overall new student enrollment has been trending down, roughly 30% of traditional freshmen drop out before year-2, tuition costs have skyrocketed over 1,300% since the late 1970ā€™sā€¦ And now the...
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